NEW research shows thousands more Scots will be condemned to the hopelessness of unemployment.

That, we now know, will be the ultimate and devastating result of David Cameron’s brutal dismantling of the welfare state.

The terrifying statistics have been drawn up by experts at Strathclyde University’s Fraser of Allander Institute.

Glasgow City Council surely feared the worst when they asked the academics to work out exactly what the swingeing cuts would mean in the real world.

But even they have been left horrified by the true scale of what is around the corner.

More than £50million in wages wasted – and £114.8million in benefits sucked out of the economy in Glasgow alone. More badly needed jobs thrown down the toilet at a time of record unemployment.

For weeks, the Record has been exposing the price disabled, sick and vulnerable Scots will pay for the so-called “reform” of welfare. From the Atos scandal to the impact of child benefit cuts, we have put the case for a change in direction.

But the obstinate Con-Dem Government continue to try to cut their way out of a recession.

It is not just those who depend on benefits who will suffer. As councillor Matt Kerr points out: “Schoolchildren, working families, pensioners and businesses will all suffer as well.”

You simply cannot suck that much money out of such a small area and not expect everyone to feel the consequences.

The most frustrating part is that even Cameron must have woken up to the fact his ideological craving to cut is backfiring.

Willing to U-turn on everything from pies to caravans, on this most vital of issues he has ploughed on regardless. The recklessness must stop.